Candid Eye
Candid Eye is a Canadian documentary television series which aired on CBC Television in 1958.
| Candid Eye | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Documentary |
| Directed by | Terence Macartney-Filgate Stanley Jackson Wolf Koenig |
| Narrated by | Stanley Jackson |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Tom Daly |
| Running time | 24–28 minutes[1] |
| Production company | National Film Board of Canada |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBC Television |
| Original release | 26 October – 7 December 1958 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | Documentary '60 |
Production
Wolf Koenig, Terence Macartney-Filgate, and Stanley Jackson filmed The Days Before Christmas in December 1957, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and National Film Board requested six more episodes after seeing it. The Day Before Christmas was later given a release in December 1958, while Blood and Fire aired as the show's first episode on 26 October 1958.[2][3]
Tom Daly served as the executive producer. Multiple names were suggested for the show, including The Roving Eye, but Candid Eye was selected despite fears that it would be confused with Candid Camera. The show was successful and seven additional episodes were requested although they would air under the name Documentary '60 after the CBC asked the NFB to rebrand Candid Eye, Frontiers, and The World in Action into one show.[3]
Candid Eye, influenced by the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson was one of the NFB's very first experiments in Cinéma vérité and has been credited as helping to inspire the cinema verite documentary movement.[4]
Episodes
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Blood and Fire[3]" | Terence Macartney-Filgate[5] | Unknown | October 26, 1958 | |
| The activities of The Salvation Army | |||||
| 2 | "A Foreign Language[6][3]" | Stanley Jackson[5] | Unknown | November 2, 1958 | |
| The teaching of English to immigrant children in a Montreal school | |||||
| 3 | "Country Threshing[3]" | Wolf Koenig[5] | Unknown | November 9, 1958 | |
| The activities of a farm in the Eastern Townships of Quebec | |||||
| 4 | "Pilgrimage[3]" | Terence Macartney-Filgate[5] | Unknown | November 16, 1958 | |
| Pilgrims coming to Saint Joseph's Oratory | |||||
| 5 | "Memory of Summer[3]" | Stanley Jackson[5] | Unknown | November 23, 1958 | |
| Depictions of the magic of childhood such as playing, singing, and other activities | |||||
| 6 | "Police[3]" | Terence Macartney-Filgate[5] | Unknown | November 30, 1958 | |
| The daily routine of the Toronto Police Service's officers | |||||
| 7 | "The Days Before Christmas[6]" | Wolf Koenig Terence Macartney-Filgate Stanley Jackson | Unknown | December 7, 1958 | |
References
- Evans 1991, p. 73.
- Evans 1991, p. 72-73.
- "Watch The Candid Eye, Our Seminal Documentary Series". National Film Board. 24 April 2018. Archived from the original on 25 October 2022.
- Aitken, Ian (27 October 2005). Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. Routledge. p. 168. ISBN 978-1579584450.
- "The Candid Eye Television Series". National Film Board. Archived from the original on 25 October 2022.
- Evans 1991, p. 72.
Works cited
- Evans, Gary (1991). In the National Interest: A Chronicle of the National Film Board of Canada from 1949 to 1989. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0802027849.
External links
- Allan, Blaine (1996). "Candid Eye". Queen's University. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
- Candid Eye at the National Film Board of Canada